Eric,
I'm going to use this opportunity to shamelessly plug my website: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ By keeping multiple rotating backup "snapshots", you can protect yourself should one or more of them get hosed, and you still won't need a huge amount of extra storage. All you need are rsync and cp. Mike > I would like to get some opinions on a backup method using rsync. I already > have a script written to mirror the data over to a backup script from a cron > that is run every night. I've also been tempted to use the "--delete" > option to keep everything up to date on the backup server. However, this is > probably a bad idea in the event my data is deleted from the "/home" > directory (just as an example) before the cron runs. When the cron runs and > this isn't noticed before hand, the "/home" directory on the backup server > will probably be whiped out as well, correct? So, do all you that use rsync > as a backup method not use the "--delete" option, or do you keep maybe a > separate weekly backup safe somewhere else. Of course, we do have our data > center making tape backups of the backup server as well, but let's assume we > didn't. Thank you! -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html